It is an incessant trickle that, in the end, ends up becoming a tsunami. There is no way to stop acts of racism in Brazil (and in South American football), no matter how much the last case has scandalized the country because it occurred in an Internacional-Corinthians, one of the big matches of the Brasileirao day.
Edenilson, captain of Colorado and who had defended Timao’s shirt, said enough when the right side of the Paulistas, Rafael Ramos, told him “macaco & rdquor ;. The midfielder, who made his debut for the Seleçao at the hands of Tite, requested a rectification from the Portuguese player and, as this did not occur, he decided to take the case to the final consequences.
At the end of the match, with the support of his club, he filed a complaint with the Civil Police at the Beira-Rio stadium facilities, an investigation was opened in which there will be a lip reading test and a bail of about 2,000 euros was imposed on Rafael Ramos, which Corinthians paid. In the sports sphere, another investigative process has been opened.
EDENILSON’S RESPONSE
Internacional played again on Tuesday, at home, in a decisive match of the Copa Sudamericana against Independiente de Medellín… and Edenilson, chosen MVP of the match, scored the two goals of the gaucho victory (2-0). In celebration of the first, he took off his shirt, to show the color of his skin and raised his right fist, in the iconic celebration of the Black Panthers. Later, at a press conference, he reaffirmed his position and said there would be no going back.
In 2020, midfielder Gerson del Flamengo, now at Olympique de Marseille, accused Colombian Juan Pablo Ramírez, from Bahia, of racial slander, the case, however, ended up shelved because the rubronegro did not go to a subsequent statement in court.
In the two episodes, the soccer players accused of pronouncing offenses are from two clubs in which their respective ‘crooked’ make flag of being “times do povo & rdquor; (village teams) and they explicitly defend, with the support of the two entities, social and racial inclusion. However, both Bahia and now Corinthians have closed ranks with their players.
Due to many media awareness campaigns, the structural racism that exists in Brazil, a legacy of slavery, continues to permeate the structures of Brazilian football. Last season, the Superior Court of Sports Justice accepted an appeal from Brusque, from Serie B, who had been punished for an explicit racist act against the footballer Celsinho del Londrina, and recovered the three lost points that had been imposed as punishment. Vexing and denigrating came out for free.
THE SHAME IN SOUTH AMERICAN COMPETITIONS
The pusillanimous attitude of clubs, federations and disciplinary committees contrasts with the feeling of indignation, because patriotic love is wounded, when racist acts take place in continental competition matches against foreigners.
In these first months of 2022, Conmebol has already increased the economic sanctions for racism (although they are still insignificant) and must open six disciplinary acts for fan racism, among which there are River Plate or Boca Juniors, in matches against teams. Brazilians.
